Publications by Falk Hans Braunmüller

Electron trapping in gyrotron electron guns: Validation of the FENNECS code with the T-REX experiment

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Jérémy Genoud, Guillaume Michel Le Bars, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Francesco Romano

Gyrotrons are essential devices for the development of nuclear fusion, but their design and reliable operation still present numerous challenges. In particular, certain gyrotrons encounter issues related to trapped electron clouds in the magnetron injectio ...

AIP Publishing2025

Experimental characterization of the TCV dual-frequency gyrotron and validation of numerical codes including the effect of After Cavity Interaction

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Matthieu Toussaint, Jérémy Genoud, Falk Hans Braunmüller

A dual-frequency gyrotron has been developed within the context of the recent Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) upgrade. The gyrotron is designed to generate a 1 MW, 2 seconds RF wave at 84 or 126 GHz. Before integrating the gyrotrons in the TCV tokam ...

2024

Simulation and experimental study of proton bunch self-modulation in plasma with linear density gradients

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Yanis Andrebe, Alban Sublet, Sun Hee Kim, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Riccardo Agnello, Christine Stollberg

We present numerical simulations and experimental results of the self-modulation of a long proton bunch in a plasma with linear density gradients along the beam path. Simulation results agree with the experimental results reported [F. Braunmller, T. Nechae ...

2021

A Variable Structure Control Scheme Proposal for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, Anna Teplukhina, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sliding Surface Based Schemes for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Bernard Schneider, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Conceptual design of the EU DEMO EC-system: main developments and R&D achievements

Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Ioannis Pagonakis, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Konstantinos Avramidis, Emanuele Poli

For the development of a DEMOnstration Fusion Power Plant the design of auxiliary heating systems is a key activity in order to achieve controlled burning plasma. The present heating mix considers electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH), neutral beam i ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Dynamic nuclear polarization by frequency modulation of a tunable gyrotron of 260 GHz

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Philippe Cuanillon, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Murari Soundararajan, Dongyoung Yoon

An increase in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) signal intensity is obtained with a tunable gyrotronproducing frequency modulation around 260 GHz at power levels less than 1W. The sweep rate of frequency modulation can reach 14 kHz, and its amplitude is ...

Academic Press2016

Gyrotron physics from linear to chaotic regimes: experiment and numerical modeling

Falk Hans Braunmüller

Gyrotrons belong to the family of high-power coherent radiation sources known as Electron Cyclotron Masers (ECMs) and are based on the physical mechanism of the ECM-instability, converting electron rotational kinetic energy into coherent electromagnetic ra ...

EPFL2016

Experimental results on a modular-gyrotron operating at 0.26THz for 400MHz DNP/NMR spectroscopy application

Stefano Alberti, Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Philippe Cuanillon, Damien Fasel, Minh Quang Tran, Trach-Minh Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Jérémie Dubray, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Alessandro Macor, Falk Hans Braunmüller

2012